In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.